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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






2. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






3. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






4. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






5. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






6. Broken down acts.






7. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






8. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






9. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






10. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






11. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






12. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






13. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






14. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






15. A strong pause within a line.






16. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






17. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






18. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






19. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






20. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






21. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






22. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






23. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






24. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






25. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






26. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






27. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






28. The dictionary meaning of a word.






29. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






30. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






31. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






32. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






33. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






34. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






35. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






36. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






37. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






38. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






39. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






40. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






41. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






42. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






43. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






44. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






45. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






46. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






47. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






48. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






49. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






50. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






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